Your cash in action
In 2009, for Red Nose Day, nine daring celebrities scaled the highest mountain in Africa – Kilimanjaro. Your response to their climb was just as epic.
Money that you donated to sponsor their climb is helping to fight malaria across Africa and is part of £8 million we’re spending on various projects to tackle this deadly disease.
These projects are distributing enough mosquito nets to protect over 10 million people while they sleep and are also training health workers to spot the symptoms of malaria and provide drugs to treat it.
Some of the Kili climbers visited Hoima in Uganda to help distribute the first half a million nets. Check out this film to see how they got on.
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Rosetta, Hoima district, Uganda
Rosetta and her family live in the Ugandan district of Hoima. Having already lost two of her children, Sam and Lillian, to malaria when they were both just a year old, Rosetta was living in fear that she’d also lose her remaining children to this killer disease.
However, Rosetta and her children can now sleep soundly. When the Kili climbers visited Hoima, Rosetta was one of the first to receive enough life-saving nets to protect her whole family.
When I got the nets I was so happy. Since then the children have not had a fever, no-one has had malaria